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(1/25) You know what? Fuck it. I'm done. As of today, I've swallowed the red pill. I’ve tried half-heartedly defending the left ever since it was obvious we were only getting half the story in the Rodney King debacle. No more.
(2/25) Why now? Because the transcult has eroded my patience. Because Ilhan Omar won’t condemn Antifa violence and Shaun King celebrates it. Because we’ve gotten to the point where innocuous hats and flags get you tarred as a white supremacist.
(3/25) Because left extremists condone the sexualization of children: drag queen storytimes, Desmond Is Amazing, Pink News being aghast that Republicans might try to ban kiddie drag shows. I don’t quote scripture much, but seriously, woe to those who call good evil and evil good.
(4/25) But the last straw was Erica Thomas and her hate hoax, and the way the leftist media and virtue-signaling politicians accepted and repeated the lie without doing the least bit of research into the claim.
(5/25) Yesterday, when the story came out, the first thing I thought of was Smollett and the Covington Boys. Timing is too convenient, I said. Show me the video, I said. Woke up today and found out I was 100% right to be skeptical.
(6/25) That was a sign to me that it’s finally time to let go. Time to stop making excuses for a movement that stirs up racial strife and feeds on knee-jerk reactions, raw emotion, and mob mentality over examining the facts.
(7/25) Here’s the deal. I come from the Midwest and know the working-class people who supported DJT, not because they thought he was morally upright or because they were seething racists, but because the left threw the working class to the dogs long ago.
(8/25) They knew the disdain coastal liberals had for them. They hoped DJT would hear their despair and maybe help bring back the blue-collar jobs that greed sent overseas, leaving their small towns decimated as the factories that held them together for generations shut down.
(9/25) DJT is, in my view, the wrong person for the right job, but it was never about him. In fact, I think he’s a blustering, mean-spirited idiot. And I hate the jingoism and xenophobia he stirs up.
(10/25) But what’s the alternative? Race-baiting, thought police, censorship, erasure of sex differences, denigration of Western culture and values, the support of extremist left-wing violence?
(11/25) Just look at the shitstorm over his stupid tweet from last week. “Love or it leave it” was a Vietnam-era slogan rooted in patriotic litmus tests. It’s been leveled at me, a white woman. The only people who made it about race was the left, b/c that’s their stock in trade.
(12/25) Thing is, I’ve never been a flag-waving patriot. I’m staunchly antiwar. I want affordable education & healthcare for all, whether a public option or universal care. I support UBI. I love Tulsi & Yang. I’m a damn populist. There should be a place for populists on the left.
(13/25) But the ruling elites have made sure there isn’t. The establishment left caters to their corporate overlords and the military-industrial complex, while the activists want to shove people into identity groups that all think exactly alike.
(14/25) The left loves diversity of appearance, but diversity of thought isn’t allowed. In contrast, the right has its problems, but at least they don’t erase you, try to de-person you, for having a different view. They aren’t afraid of ideas.
(15/25) And I say this as a lesbian. In fact, women’s issues were what pushed me into the left in the first place. As a Catholic pro-lifer, it’s always been an uneasy alliance for me, but I figured the left was the lesser of two evils.
(16/25) Yes, the right has its share of bigots, but the left has now caved to extremists who now tell me *I’m* a bigot for not wanting to sleep with transwomen (i.e., male-bodied people). Now you’re a bigot for even using the term “pregnant women,” for God’s sake.
(17/25) Why? Because “men can get pregnant too.” “Some men have a uterus.” And “some women have a penis.” News flash: No, they don’t. The emperor has no clothes. But the left won’t stand up against this idiocy, even as women’s spaces and sports are invaded by entitled men.
(18/25) So I’ll take my chances with the comparative Wild West of the political right. Things sometimes get ugly, but freedom is by its very nature a messy affair. Tyranny, by contrast, is neat and orderly, because everything you can do and say is controlled, micromanaged.
(19/25) I want to live in a society where we take people on a one-by-one basis and discuss/debate their ideas, not where I get stuffed into an identity group that will spit me out as soon as I question its political orthodoxy.
(20/25) Because I don’t give a damn if you’re male, female, straight, gay, black, or white. I care about what’s in your heart. I think the left used to uphold that ideal, but it doesn’t anymore.
(21/25) My whole family was, and is, conservative. I was the rebel. We still have some differences, but with age comes wisdom, as I’m beginning to see they weren’t as misguided as I once thought. Maybe I was the one who needed to take off my idealist rose-colored glasses.
(22/25) Or maybe it’s just true, as has long been said, that if you’re not a liberal when you’re young you have no heart, but if you’re not a conservative when you’re older you have no brain. Or maybe I’m just sick of it all. I don’t know.
(23/25) I expect to lose friends, but I don’t care. I’ve been leaning in this direction for quite a while now, and people who know me also know I think outside the box.
(24/25) And now, almost perversely to my mind, it’s the right, not the left, that welcomes outside-the-box thinkers, while the left just wants to put you in a box and not let you deviate in the slightest.
(25/25) Which just proves what Paul Joseph Watson has been saying for quite a while now: As weird as it seems, the right is the new counterculture.
